BIB_ID
377550
Accession number
MA 1293.21
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Published
London : Printed and sold by Creery, 1821. [i.e. Ravenna : s.n., 1820?]
Credit line
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
ix, [2], 12-46 p. ; 17 cm
Notes
Dedication dated: "Ravenna, June 21, 1819."
First published in England by John Murray, 1821, with Byron's "Marino Faliero"; cf. Wise, II:31.
High reserve.
Imprint is false. "The genuine first edition printed by Byron in Ravenna, c. 1820, and preceding the English edition by at least a year ... presumably only a few copies were printed for private distribution"--Dealer's note. Willard Fiske's citation does not correct imprint.
Morgan Library copy cut into separate pages ( each ca. 15 cm) and inlaid in much larger sheets (54 cm)
Morgan Library copy is part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs, and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
First published in England by John Murray, 1821, with Byron's "Marino Faliero"; cf. Wise, II:31.
High reserve.
Imprint is false. "The genuine first edition printed by Byron in Ravenna, c. 1820, and preceding the English edition by at least a year ... presumably only a few copies were printed for private distribution"--Dealer's note. Willard Fiske's citation does not correct imprint.
Morgan Library copy cut into separate pages ( each ca. 15 cm) and inlaid in much larger sheets (54 cm)
Morgan Library copy is part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs, and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
Provenance
Kaye Dowland.
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